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dex3108

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• Dec 17, 2016

• #1

Last few weeks i really got into the whole 360 degree photos/screenshots thing with Nvidia Ansel. It is really interesting way to show games but it is also really difficult to show them to other people. Best way is Facebook (but most of my friends there are not gamers so there is very little point for sharing them there) and there is kuula.co that i use for posting them on Twitter. Now GAF is big community full of gamers and we have two wonderful threads dedicated to screenshots. But currently there is no way to present 360 degree screenshots directly on GAF by embedding viewer in posts.

So i tried to ask around (in PC SS thread and in Steam thread) is there a way to change that. So far there are two approaches to this problem. One is with extension that would detect links from certain pages like kuula and use their embed code to somehow put viewer in posts. Other way is to add "?vr" in image link and then make extension to look for it and if it is there to load that image in Google VR View

I don't have enough knowledge to pull something like this and i don't even know if there is any interest for such things on GAF so i made this thread to hear your opinions.

To see how 360 screenshots look like you can see few of mine:

The Witness
https://kuula.co/post/7fBQX
https://flic.kr/p/QgRG5c?vr

Watch_Dogs 2
https://kuula.co/post/7fBQk
https://kuula.co/post/7fBQY

The Witcher
https://kuula.co/post/7fBQ9

 

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Aztechnology

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• Dec 17, 2016

• #2

Whoa, awesome. Phone immediately starting using the gyro to view the scene. Cool captures. Very smooth too.

 

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SigSig

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• Dec 17, 2016

• #3

Ooh, subscribed! I'll check these out in Cardboard later.

 

Rellik

Member

• Dec 17, 2016

• #4

They also embed pretty well into Twitter.

 

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dex3108

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• Dec 17, 2016

• #5

SigSig said:

Ooh, subscribed! I'll check these out in Cardboard later.

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It is really cool to see game world that way.

 

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Vuze

Member

• Dec 28, 2016

• #6

dex, how did you get ANSEL to work in Watch Dogs 2? The standard(?) Alt+F2 hotkey doesn't work for me and a post on the Nvidia forum from last week claims it's still unimplemented?

 

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dex3108

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #7

Vuze said:

dex, how did you get ANSEL to work in Watch Dogs 2? The standard(?) Alt+F2 hotkey doesn't work for me and a post on the Nvidia forum from last week claims it's still unimplemented?

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Ummm Alt+F2 worked for me

Also GAF member corrosivefrost created Chrome plugin for kuula screenshots so you can see them directly on GAF. As soon it's ready he or me will post it here in the thread

 

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Vuze

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #8

dex3108 said:

Ummm Alt+F2 worked for me

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Huh, that's weird. uPlay or Steam version (uPlay for me)?

 

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Space_nut

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #9

This needs to be the standard of screenshot sharing

 

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dex3108

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #10

Vuze said:

Huh, that's weird. uPlay or Steam version (uPlay for me)?

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UPlay version. Here i just took this one

https://kuula.co/post/7fr1p

Space_nut said:

This needs to be the standard of screenshot sharing

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Well i am trying to make it a bit more popular on GAF at least

 

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hoserx

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #11

These things give me motion sickness I think. I feel dizziness and nausea. I can play 3d games without this happening to me. Strange.

 

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dex3108

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #12

hoserx said:

These things give me motion sickness I think. I feel dizziness and nausea. I can play 3d games without this happening to me. Strange.

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It is mostly FOV issue. Try to zoom in a bit and see if things will change.

 

jediyoshi

Member

• Dec 28, 2016

• #13

Oh weird, didn't think ansel was in watch dogs 2 yet

Works for me

 

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Noobcraft

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #14

Embedded 3D images would be cool. I made a bunch a while back with ICE and the Xbox One's screenshot function. They're hosted on the soon to be dead photosynth but that's ok.

https://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=bf48d6d0-856d-4956-8afe-b734549d7648

 

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louiedog

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #15

hoserx said:

These things give me motion sickness I think. I feel dizziness and nausea. I can play 3d games without this happening to me. Strange.

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Same.

This was the main reason I went to an store demo to make sure I could handle VR even though I very rarely get any sort of motion sickness.

Good news is I can.

 

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Vipu

Banned

• Dec 28, 2016

• #16

Should those work on Chrome?

Here it says Chrome supports it but I get "WebGL not supported"
https://developers.google.com/vr/concepts/vrview

 

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Incitemaybe

Member

• Dec 28, 2016

• #17

Sadly, all those links load up and where the 360 picture should be it's just all beige.

On mobile Safari here.

 

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Vuze

Member

• Dec 28, 2016

• #18

dex3108 said:

UPlay version. Here i just took this one

https://kuula.co/post/7fr1p



Well i am trying to make it a bit more popular on GAF at least

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Huh, thanks for getting back to me. Time to reinstall GFE and drivers to see whether it works.

E: Yup, works now after driver reinstall. Cool cool

 

jediyoshi

Member

• Dec 28, 2016

• #19

Trying it out for WD2, nifty site

https://kuula.co/post/7fr19

 

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RedlineRonin

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #20

Whoa. This is pretty cool. I'd look at a thread full of these.

 

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dex3108

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• Dec 28, 2016

• #21

jediyoshi said:

Trying it out for WD2, nifty site

https://kuula.co/post/7fr19

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You can also post them on FB or Flickr but that needs a bit more work. For FB to recognize them you need to make 360 panoramic screen in JPG and add Camera info from one of those 360 degree cameras (i use Ricoh for maker and Theta S for model). Flickr needs custom tag (equirectangular) so it can recognize that it is 360 degree image and activate 360 degree view

In all cases your image needs to be 2:1 ratio.

 

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dex3108

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #22

I made few more 360 screenshots in Witcher 3

https://kuula.co/post/7ft4w

https://kuula.co/post/7ft4V

https://kuula.co/post/7ft4C

https://kuula.co/post/7ft4s

 

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Gestault

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #23

Am I understanding right that Ansel is still limited to a title-by-title basis (with a compatible card)? I love this concept and I got super into Cardboard for a while, but last time around I found it was sort of limited.

 

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dex3108

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #24

Gestault said:

Am I understanding right that Ansel is still limited to a title-by-title basis (with a compatible card)? I love this concept and I got super into Cardboard for a while, but last time around I found it was sort of limited.

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Yes but since late last year Ansel is included in Unreal Engine so that will help. Also more and more devs are using it and there are already nice amount of games that are using it.

 

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NahaNago

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #25

It seems kinda of trippy when i look at these screenshots

 

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Peltz

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #26

The Witness is such a nice game visually. Its graphics/style are kinda underrated.

 

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CS_Dan

Member

• Jan 9, 2017

• #27

This would be incredible with 3D support for VR
Thanks for sharing, OP

 

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dex3108

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #28

CS_Dan said:

This would be incredible with 3D support for VR
Thanks for sharing, OP

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You can open them on you phone and use cardboard VR

 

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CS_Dan

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #29

dex3108 said:

You can open them on you phone and use cardboard VR

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It just fullscreens in 2D for me

 

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dex3108

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• Jan 9, 2017

• #30

CS_Dan said:

It just fullscreens in 2D for me

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There is cardboard icon at the bottom and when you press on it and turn phone in landscape mode you get cardboard ready image.

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